diff --git a/data/essays/2025-09-what_kids_taught_me_about_creativity.md b/data/essays/2025-09-what_kids_taught_me_about_creativity.md index 566f733..8685762 100644 --- a/data/essays/2025-09-what_kids_taught_me_about_creativity.md +++ b/data/essays/2025-09-what_kids_taught_me_about_creativity.md @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ The best creative tool is the one that disappears, leaving only you and the divi ## Nowadays -These days, I find myself thinking about different kinds of complexity - the algorithmic kind that shapes consciousness without our consent. I write about [the algorithm systematically eating virtue](/essays/2025-08-26-the_algorithm_eats_virtue), [devouring democracy](/essays/2025-08-27-the_algorithm_eats_democracy), [consuming language itself](/essays/2025-08-27-the_algorithm_eats_language). I explore [mental health not being what we think it is](/essays/2025-09-01-mental_health_isnt_what_you_think_it_is) - not individual pathology but often the sane response to insane systems. +These days, I find myself thinking about different kinds of complexity - the algorithmic kind that shapes consciousness without our consent. I write about [the algorithm systematically eating virtue](/essays/2025-08-26-the_algorithm_eats_virtue), [devouring democracy](/essays/2025-08-27-the_algorithm_eats_democracy), [consuming language itself](/essays/2025-08-27-the_algorithm_eats_language). I explore [mental health not being what we think it is](/essays/2025-09-01-mental_health_isnt_what_you_think_it_is) - not individual pathology but often the sane response to insane systems. I analyze [when values eat their young](/essays/2025-08-25-when-values-eat-their-young) - how institutions betray the very people they claim to protect. The same principles that taught me to let go of expensive cameras apply to letting go of the attention economy's demands on consciousness. The gear was just practice for recognizing all the other things that masquerade as necessary but actually distance us from what's sacred. Now the question isn't just "what creative tools do I need?" but "what systems am I unconsciously feeding that eat away at human flourishing?"